sorry I haven't updated in a while.
no real excuse.
this is the end of our spring break and it has been so nice! sleeping in. cleaning. no school to worry about.
my parents took Eva for a few days, which was great. I realized that Elle gets the same amount of attention whether Eva is around or not...so next time I'm going to see if they'll take Elle for a few days so we can give Eva our undivided attention.  Jeremy and I just stare at Eva and wonder how she got so big?! She's reading a lot now and building her confidence at school. She's learning about money and saving. her front tooth is loose and I can't wait for it to fall out, she's going to be adorable!

Elle has been potty training for about a month now. She's doing great...I hate potty training and my mom pushed me into it- I'm SO glad she did. I like to just do it all, night time potty training along with regular...I never want to see a diaper again once I start...so that's where we are with that. Elle is also my girly-girl, she likes to change her clothes two or three times a day (she likes to change her underwear a ton too now) and she loves to be a "princess" and dress up. She likes to memorize just like Eva did at this age, she tries to memorize movies and shows she likes. I especially like it when she uses her movie quotes while she's talking, my favorite is when she says, "What the, what?" So cute.

Jeremy is still training for a half marathon, he's running like crazy. He did a 5k a couple weekends ago and that went well, he learned a lot from it...like don't stay up till 3am the night before. Rookie mistake.

And I'm enjoying doing my fashion blog (if you're not a follower, follow me...I'm working on getting giveaways but I can only get it if I have proof of all my readers!). It takes some effort but it's what I love to do, and it's really fun getting to know my readers. I'm also preparing for this spring and summer- since I was two sizes bigger last year I need to buy all new clothes when the weather gets nice!! Yay. I can't wait! We're also planning another trip out to see Jeremy's parents this summer and the girls can't wait! (neither can we!)

I am a winning machine!
I know, I know, you're all jealous and you don't want to hear it........
BUT
I won more stuff!!
Here are the great blogs I won from recently:
Pink Nothings
Cardigan Empire
The Creative Crate
  Thanks ladies!!!!!!!!!

100 Days of School

does your school celebrate this? I had never heard of it before...I read about it on blogs a month or so back but I had no idea that they celebrate the 100th day of school, when did this come about?
anyway, Eva's 100th day was yesterday and they did all sorts of things counting to 100.
She said it was a lot of fun and I know she's so proud that she can count to 100.

Our first pic we thought we'd have her do a 1 then two zero's...

then we thought she could do 100 on both her hands at once...we were in a rush that morning...

 

yay 100 days of school down, a billion more to go...

it's only "fun" for a limited amount of time...

Eva's afterschool special...

It's been beautiful here the past few days...like 65 degrees. I took the girls out to the park the other day to play. Eventually a couple of boys came, they were around 3 or 4 years old, the started telling the girls, "This is our castle, you can't play here" just stupid kid stuff, I just ignored it and let the girls deal with it however they want...well non-violent hopefully..I think I've at least taught them that.
Eva is pretty sensitive so she decided to have her little 2 year old sister be the muscle. She told Elle to tell them to "GO AWAY" and "NO!" It was pretty funny seeing Elle's little body come up with these full on screams and get into this little boys face...and Eva standing behind her with her arms crossed like, "yeah, that's my sister, what are you going to do about it?!"
The boys didn't back down and eventually Eva's feelings were hurt. I told her "You're six years old, are you really going to let a little 3 year old tell you what you can't play with? This isn't his playground, he can't tell you to leave, go play."
I guess in translation, that meant to Eva to go up to him and push him. It was pretty funny. I laughed out loud...then I told her she doesn't need to push and be mean to get her point across. So she went under the play structure to pout with Elle.
During this the little boys friend left and he was all alone.
I told Eva, go ask him if he wants to play, just because he's mean doesn't mean that you have to be.
Eva said, "He's RUDE why would I play with him?"
Good point.
He eventually went to where the girls were, just standing there and Eva proceeded to tell him this:
(this is word for word...I'm not even joking)
Eva: "Listen kid, I get it, I was three once too and I was always telling people, "you can't play here" and stuff like that, I was clumsy too (Eva translation:mean) and you know what? I got bigger and I want to share now. I want to be nice to people. I'm not three anymore and you don't have to be rude."
(just to clarify, Eva was an angel and still is...she's the easiest kid on earth and completely non-confrontational...she has never been out right mean to any child for no reason)
I couldn't believe she said all of this. I was so proud of her trying to relate and then coming back with her point...is she 50? It was also hilarious to listen to her reason with this stupid little kid.
She's such a good girl. I'm so proud of her and the choices that she's making.

And just to be clear...this little boy is totally rude, he's a brat and none of the moms like him, he's headed down a lonely path to being a bully. I'm pretty sure he'll be on Bully Beatdown in the future.

valentines...

 This was Eva's first official school Valentine's Day/Party. The rules were that the kids had to hand write their names and their classmates names, that's 23 names in all. We had about a week to prepare and I had been searching for fun ideas for Valentine's, I figured they'd be getting a lot of candy so it would be fun to come up with a creative Valentine and useful.

I'm an avid blog follower and one of my very favorites is How Does She... and She had a great Valentine idea that I knew Eva could do and I'd have fun doing too.

 

  I took some silicon heart shaped muffin molds, broke up some of our old crayons and they got a bunch at the dollar store and we melted them in the oven and Hoe Does She... had this great little saying too:

It was very time consuming and I got out of the hardest part of the whole thing (having Eva hand write everything...my mom had both the girls spend the night (thank you mom!) and had Eva write all the kids names and her name!!). It definitely wasn't a cheap project (unless you have a ton of crayons laying around) I probably bought $10 worth of crayons and packaging at the dollar store, plus I had to buy the muffin silicon (which I got on sale at JoAnn's) but it was fun and now I have the silicon for other projects too, the girls loved playing with them and they're fun to create different colors with.


Now onto the Valentines hair. You guys know I love Adopt a 'Do and I did this great Valentine's heart. It's super easy and that's pretty much all I can handle...easy.
Eva of course hasn't changed much and she whined and was upset that I wanted to so her hair, but when we were done, she was thrilled and loved showing all her friends at school.

On her way to school with all her Valentine's and her Valentine's gift for her teacher.

And now onto some exciting news. I got a sewing machine!! It was my late Christmas present...very late but better late than never! My mom got me this AWESOME book for Christmas this year called 

One Yard Wonders it has so many cute projects, that only require ONE yard of fabric.

I've been wanting to make pinafore's for a while now and low and behold there was a pinafore pattern in my new book! So my mom came over and showed me how to work the basics of my new machine and we got started on making Elle a Valentine's pinafore.

I did not take any pics of me actually sewing (sorry...I didn't shower either day and it was pretty nasty) but maybe next time.
Here is my end result, my cute baby in her new pinafore and she loved it...and learned the word pinafore! She wore it for four days straight.

There's my catch up.
Other happenings in our lives:
Elle is potty training...my mom convinced me that I just had to do it, that she was ready (she was/is ready I just hate potty training) so she's been in panties now for 8 days, she's had maybe 4 accidents and she's done amazing. I don't think it has quite clicked yet, but maybe by the end of this week it'll click, here's hoping!

Jeremy has been running a lot lately, he's training to do a half marathon in May. He amazes me, he wants to do something, he plans it out and executes it, it's such a great quality to have, I wish I had it!

Eva has been reading a lot lately, she's really great at it, she's timid but she's finding her confidence and doing so well. She's getting so big, I can't believe that she's 6! She's also currently obsessed with Pokemon (shoot me in the face) and now has her sister saying "Peeka, peeka, peek-a-choo," sometimes my ears bleed.

I've been trying to loose the last of the weight I wanted to loose...it's not easy after taking a break. I'd like to loose two more sizes and it's hard to have will power. Today I'm going to cut out pics of things I want to wear this spring and summer and I'm hoping it motivates me to stick to my diet!


We hope you guys are all doing well! I'll try to update more family stuff! Sorry I've been lacking!

Today's Give Away

Over at Today's Give Away there's a chance to win a blog make over from Lucky Girl Designs and I would LOVE to win it for my new blog enSTYLEpedia!
So I am blogging about it if anyone wants to join in to win!
http://todaysgiveaway.net